Purpose/Goal: Provide and streamline the most up-to-date information and public-facing resources regarding global health security architecture, programming, and interagency coordination at the national and global levels for global health staff and other funding and hiring mechanisms whose work intersects with global health security, biodefense strategy, and/or international infectious disease response.

Role: Project Lead, Head Instructional Designer and eLearning Developer

Tools: Storyline 360, Adobe Creative Suite, ElevenLabs AI, Adobe Firefly Image AI

Challenges/Barriers: During the design of this project, we worked closely with SMEs to pare down all unnecessary and extraneous information. After identifying what was most critical to the course, we decided to break up the content into three courses-basic, intermediate, and advanced, not only to scaffold and chunk the content, but to also tailor each course to its intended audience. This was the first of the three, covering basic global health security, with the second and third courses diving deeper into the nuances of global health security programming. 

Evaluation: Learner reaction survey (option, end-of-course), course assessment, learner analytics through LMS, post-mortem with SMEs and follow-up reporting 

Highlights: 

• Custom eLearning interface; Interactive markers to engage with on-screen graphics

• Custom images, diagrams and AI images created/edited in Adobe CC

• Accordion, tabbed, and custom interactions to explore additional information

• Customized drag-and-drop sorting and scenario-based knowledge check questions 

• Triggers and variables to direct the learner to the assessment after successful completion of the modules and knowledge check questions

• AI voice narration, fully animated on-screen course narrator, custom learner avatar 

Purpose/Goal: Reduce incidences of soccer coaching decisions that are inconsistent and/or misaligned with the club coaching code of conduct, policies/procedures, and coaching expectations by 90%.

Role: Instructional Designer, eLearning Developer & Project Manager

Tools: Storyline 360 & PowerPoint

Challenges/Barriers: Under ideal circumstances, the training content involved in this project would be broken into three separate modules of 15-20 minutes each. However, learner time constraints revealed during the needs analysis for the client led to the development of a single eLearning course with pared down, methodically-chunked information and substantial opportunities for practice. 

Evaluation: Learner reaction survey, coaching directors questionnaire, data analysis of compliance incidences after the completion of soccer season in Fall 2023.

Highlights: 

• Interactive markers to engage with on-screen graphics

• Custom diagrams and images created/edited in PowerPoint

• Accordion and tabbed interactions to explore additional information

• Customized drag-and-drop sorting and scenario-based knowledge check questions 

• Triggers and variables to direct the learner to the assessment after successful completion of the practice activities and knowledge check questions

• Text-to-speech narration and closed captions

Purpose: Rising food costs and product shortages have encouraged many to grow their own vegetables. This course takes learners through the process of planning a personal kitchen garden, from selecting an ideal location to choosing crops to grow. 

Role: Instructional Designer & eLearning Developer

Tools: Rise 360, Camtasia & PowerPoint

Highlights: 

• Clickable custom on-screen images 

• Image carousel and flip card interactions

• Embedded video and screencast tutorials

• Lesson knowledge checks and summative course assessment

Purpose: Interest and participation in outdoor activities has increased dramatically in the last 2 years. I created this course as a resource for novice hikers, hunters, and outdoorsmen who want to learn about reading topographic maps, which are essential for navigation in the backcountry. 

Role: Instructional Designer & eLearning Developer

Tools: Rise 360 & PowerPoint

Highlights: 

• Custom on-screen images with clickable markers

• Flip card and drag-and-drop interactions

• Matching and multiple choice knowledge checks

• Scenario-based end-of-course challenge (in place of a formal, end-of-course assessment)

Purpose: Rising costs of post-secondary education mean that understanding ways to finance it are all the more essential to making a well-informed decision. This course showcases level III interactions which include gamification elements to engage learners with technical financial content.

Role: Instructional Designer & eLearning Developer

Tools: PowerPoint & Storyline 360

Highlights:

• Gamification with customized character/avatar selection

• Branching main menu with learner choice/sequence of content

• Text-to-speech narration personalized per character selection

• Custom images created/edited in PowerPoint